The AIBS Public Policy Office has released its annual report for 2021. Read about our achievements in science policy.
Highlights include:
- Helped 75 scientists become advocates for science.
- Endorsed and rallied support for legislation to make significant new investments in the National Science Foundation (NSF).
- Increased awareness of the needs of the biological sciences community by facilitating 64 meetings between scientists and lawmakers.
- Provided professional development training to 230 scientists.
- Provided recommendations to the White House on strengthening federal scientific integrity policies.
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Provided comments to the Biden Administration on the scientific framework for the new Advanced Research Project Agency – Health (ARPA-H).
- Urged President Biden to champion legislation endorsed by AIBS to provide $25 billion in emergency relief funding for federal science agencies.
- Through an NSF-funded virtual workshop series, engaged the international scientific community in policy discussions about the application of access and benefit sharing principles to digital sequence information.
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Called on the Biden Administration and Congress to provide visa assistance and other support to displaced Afghan scientists.
- Endorsed legislation aimed at scaling up efforts to track COVID-19 variants.
Read the 2021 Public Policy Office Annual Report.